Son of the famous artist Alessandro Allori, Cristofano Allori was a key figure in the Mannerist Florentine School and a pupil and imitator of Bronzino. Unlike his father, and in a move that led to a rift with him, Cristofano Allori soon joined the group of artists inspired by the technique and character of Venetian painting and broke with the cold, enamel technique of the Florentine tradition. He worked at Gregorio Pagani’s studio for some time and even carried out interesting free and sketched pictorial experiments, as Cigoli had attempted. Allori enjoyed great standing and some of his best-known works, particularly his famous Judith (Judith With the Head of Holofernes), are among the most reproduced and appreciated of the whole of the Italian Seicento.
Son of the famous artist Alessandro Allori, Cristofano Allori was a key figure in the Mannerist Florentine School and a pupil and imitator of Bronzino. Unlike his father, and in a move that led to a rift with him, Cristofano Allori soon joined the group of artists inspired by the technique and character of Venetian painting and broke with the cold, enamel technique of the Florentine tradition. He worked at Gregorio Pagani’s studio for some time and even carried out interesting free and sketched pictorial experiments, as Cigoli had attempted. Allori enjoyed great standing and some of his best-known works, particularly his famous Judith (Judith With the Head of Holofernes), are among the most reproduced and appreciated of the whole of the Italian Seicento.